INDIAN ANTIQUITIES: OR, DISSERTATIONS, RELATIVE TO THE ANCIENT GEOGRAPHICAL DIVISIONS, THE PURE SYSTEM OF PRIMEVAL THEOLOGY, THE GRAND CODE OF CIVIL LAWS, THE ORIGINAL FORM OF GOVERNMENT, AND THE VARIOUS AND PROFOUND LITERATURE OF HINDOSTAN: COMPARED, THROUGHOUT, WITH THE RELIGION, LAWS, GOVERNMENT AND LITERATURE OF PERSIA, EGYPT, AND GREECE. THE WHOLE Intended as Introductory To, and Illustrative Of, THE HISTORY OF HINDOSTAN.. Containing the DISSERTATIONS on the GEOGRAPHICAL DIVISIONS, and the THEOLOGY, of HINDOSTAN, Volume 1THE AUTHOR, 1793 |
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... appear to me to afford an illuftrative commentary upon , and to yield decifive teftimony to the truth of THE TEN FIRST CHAPTERS OF GENESIS . For in memorial of what other events , except of those important ones that engroffed the grate ...
... appear to me to afford an illuftrative commentary upon , and to yield decifive teftimony to the truth of THE TEN FIRST CHAPTERS OF GENESIS . For in memorial of what other events , except of those important ones that engroffed the grate ...
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... appear- ance , both of the caps and the bust , here represented , ma- terially varies from that exhibited in the feventh volume of the Archæologia , and in the large plate , lately published , in this country , by Mr. Forbes , From a ...
... appear- ance , both of the caps and the bust , here represented , ma- terially varies from that exhibited in the feventh volume of the Archæologia , and in the large plate , lately published , in this country , by Mr. Forbes , From a ...
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... appear again in its proper place , among the engravings of the other avatars , they will be candid enough to confider this fpontaneous fubjection of my → felf to unnecellary expence , at once as a mark of my grateful respect for their ...
... appear again in its proper place , among the engravings of the other avatars , they will be candid enough to confider this fpontaneous fubjection of my → felf to unnecellary expence , at once as a mark of my grateful respect for their ...
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... the events of that avatar . It is engraving for me , with all the accuracy of delineation and spirit that distinguishes the original , and will appear among among the avatars . In this particular figure there is ( ciii )
... the events of that avatar . It is engraving for me , with all the accuracy of delineation and spirit that distinguishes the original , and will appear among among the avatars . In this particular figure there is ( ciii )
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... appears to me to be a fpecies of aftronomical mythology ; and poffi- bly , when more fully investigated , the Teftudo of the Egyptian Hermes , and the Tortoife in which Veeshnu became incarnate , will both be found to have reference to ...
... appears to me to be a fpecies of aftronomical mythology ; and poffi- bly , when more fully investigated , the Teftudo of the Egyptian Hermes , and the Tortoife in which Veeshnu became incarnate , will both be found to have reference to ...
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